If you're not using it then close it! You don't need it running in order
to be able to dwonload files actually opening it means that you are
providing ftp service.
Edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the line that refers to it also
comment out any other services that you are not inclined to provide.
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:45:19 +1000 (EST)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: possible sytem hack?
>
>
> I'm not using ftp to provide anything, merely to acquire.
> both wu-ftpd and proftpd (?ftp providers?) are on my machine, but
> to my knowledge I have not used them for anything. I use 'WebDownloader for X
> 1.16' to download files. I don't know if this is a frontend for one of the above
> programs, or if it is self-sufficient with it's own security issues to bear in
> mind.
> Using the find command below turned up nothing that I thought looked
> particularly suspect, but then I don't know what exactly I'm looking for in
> the data that it produced (would it be unwise to post the output of this onto
> the list?).
> similarly there is nothing that looks out of the ordinary in my passwd file.
>
> I'm not sure where else to look, for what. I guess there's only so much I can
> do at this stage.
> BTW, I have no use for 'news' how would I disable this, which gains su status
> twice a day, although I have not configured it at all?
>
> takcq, so much.
> d.
>
Noah
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